Mud season is losing the battle, at last. There are subtle signs of spring in the air. The dawn chorus is building up and the twigs of the oak trees are transforming into a nobbly sticks. On our morning walk, the lesser celandines and primroses are flowering in the hedgerows. […]
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Hotchpotch – my word of the week
There goes another week. An oddly dissatisfying week, where nothing sat quite right, but it’s ending on a humdinger of a high note, so not all is lost. Yey! I can hear the gentle playing of a guitar from upstairs and the hound noisily dreaming in the next room to […]
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Our week has been peppered with deadlines. In a time when so much is on hold and it can feel like you’re twiddling your thumbs waiting for something, anything, to happen, having a deadline breaks up the weeks. They step into the vacant spots where events and appointments used to […]
Read moreTouch of ridiculous – word of the week
Tip, tap, tippity, tip, tap {repeat} Believe me. First thing in the morning, this is not a sound you want to hear coming down your chimney. Or any time of the day, for that matter. tip, tip, tip, tap It was windy the previous night. I mean, really windy. The […]
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